Ventral kinety

Ventral kinety

Taxonomic markers

ciliate

Definition

The ventral kinety is on the left side of the right ciliary field and on the right side of the oral primordium. It is the longest entirely monokinetidal ciliary row on the ventral side (Figs 1b, f). Although older expressions existed (frange bordante, frange ondulante, Fauré-Fremiet 1924; ciliary membrane, Campbell 1926, Kofoid and Campbell 1939, Tappan and Loeblich 1968), the term “ventral kinety” was introduced by Snyder and Brownlee (1991) to indicate the position of the ciliary row. Agatha and Riedel-Lorjé (2006)